Timothy Villagomez

Timothy Pangelinan Villagomez (born September 10, 1962, Saipan) is a Northern Marianan politician who served as the seventh lieutenant governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from January 9, 2006 until his resignation on April 24, 2009,[1] under Governor Benigno R.

[2] Villagomez is a relative of former Northern Mariana Islands Governor Pedro Tenorio and his wife, First Lady Sophia.

[3] In August 2008, Villagomez was indicted on felony charges relating to the misuse of government funds.

[4] On April 24, 2009, he was found guilty along with former Commerce Secretary James A. Santos and his wife Joaquina V. Santos (Villagomez's sister) relating to a scheme to defraud the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. through needless purchases of a de-scaling chemical called Rydlyme.

[7] In December 2012, the Ninth Circuit vacated Villagomez's sentence citing a mistake in calculation.